Chloe Gendrow

If history is what defines how we exist within the world, Norwell’s reality is one of rumor and conjecture. For many, and in most cases, the shape of front man Brady Schwertfeger’s project is amorphous at best; constructed by quip here, whisper there, always as potentiality, never shorter than years. As a recorded entity, digital drums and compressed audio samples pepper Norwell’s songs built around resonant keyboards and simultaneously nearby and far away vocals. Lyrically, it’s a doleful emotional exercise about what’s real and what isn’t, about who, about nothing in particular, but everything all at once.

As a live band, Norwell has devised a notable blend of post-rock, ethereal indie rock, and RnB with the help of local Missoula musicians and full-time multi-platform collaborators Jon Filkins and Sarah Marker (Mendelssohn), James Riach (Catamount, No Fancy), and Sam Ore (Shakewell).

With a debut album on simmer before serve, Norwell’s unveiling promises to be unique. Come with questions of how and why a thing would or should ever come to be now or sometime soon in a place like this or elsewhere, but don’t look back; there are no answers in the past.